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Summaries SUMMARIES Editorial note: Below you will find summaries of the articles in this issue of Helsinki Monitor: Security and Human Rights. The OSCE Human Dimension at a crossroads, Aaron Rhodes The article is adopted from a keynote speech, delivered by Aaron Rhodes, at the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw on 27 September 2007. The annual OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting ( HDIM ), which is generally considered to be the main annual human rights event in the Euro- Atlantic region, can be described as an international political ritual where our commitments to fundamental principles are measured against reality. The HDIM is a confrontation between the words and rhetoric generated in diplomatic debates, and the immediate, concrete impact of what happens in the real world. The sinners are called upon to repent. We are all sinners; but we are all part of an interdependent community of peoples and nations, dedicated to one another. The days are over when transgressions of common human rights standards can credibly be regarded as ‘internal matters’. Today, human rights problems anywhere are matters of legitimate international concern. They are threats to human security, the security of a humanity, ultimately, without borders. Exclusion: http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Helsinki Monitor (in 2008 continued as Security and Human Rights) Brill

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Brill
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© 2007 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0925-0972
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1571-814X
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10.1163/157181407782713675
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SUMMARIES Editorial note: Below you will find summaries of the articles in this issue of Helsinki Monitor: Security and Human Rights. The OSCE Human Dimension at a crossroads, Aaron Rhodes The article is adopted from a keynote speech, delivered by Aaron Rhodes, at the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw on 27 September 2007. The annual OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting ( HDIM ), which is generally considered to be the main annual human rights event in the Euro- Atlantic region, can be described as an international political ritual where our commitments to fundamental principles are measured against reality. The HDIM is a confrontation between the words and rhetoric generated in diplomatic debates, and the immediate, concrete impact of what happens in the real world. The sinners are called upon to repent. We are all sinners; but we are all part of an interdependent community of peoples and nations, dedicated to one another. The days are over when transgressions of common human rights standards can credibly be regarded as ‘internal matters’. Today, human rights problems anywhere are matters of legitimate international concern. They are threats to human security, the security of a humanity, ultimately, without borders. Exclusion:

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